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Agriculture in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and the four southern provinces of Brazil is mainly based on animal husbandry. The La Plata plain, which stretches for 1.5 million square kilometers, is home to millions of cattle, sheep, horses and other economic animals.
livestock.
In the eyes of ordinary people, pastoral areas where livestock are grazed are water-scarce areas with rainfall less than 400 mm. Because of the harsh local natural conditions, people adopt the inefficient agricultural production method of grazing. As long as the local natural conditions are suitable, people living there
The Chinese will reclaim the land they occupy into cultivated land and plant rice, wheat and other crops. In southern Xinjiang, as long as the local annual precipitation reaches more than 350 mm, the inland people who immigrate there will display the characteristics of a farming nation.
, reclaiming barren and water-deficient land into precious arable land, and investing a lot of energy in carefully cultivating it.
The Han nation missed the global colonial period during the Great Discovery Period. More than 400 million people were crowded on the land that had been cultivated for thousands of years. They were very eager to possess the land. However, the white people of South America, who are descendants of colonization, have the rich wealth left by their ancestors.
In the face of a large amount of fertile land, heritage is not cherished as much as the Han people.
The La Plata Plain, mainly distributed in the four provinces of Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and southern Brazil, covers an area of 1.5 million square kilometers and has an annual precipitation of about 1,000 millimeters, which is nearly twice the area of the four major plains in China.
Among the four major plains, the Northeast Plain covers an area of 350,000 square kilometers and has an annual precipitation of 35o-7oo.
The North China Plain covers an area of 310,000 square kilometers and has an annual precipitation of 5oo-1ooo.
The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River plain covers an area of 160,000 square kilometers, with an annual precipitation of 1,000-1,500 square kilometers, and the Guanzhong Plain covers an area of 40,000 square kilometers, with an annual precipitation of 3,000-6,000 square kilometers.
The four major plains with a total area of 860,000 square kilometers carry more than half of the continent's population. However, due to the overpopulation of the four major plain bases that were originally the main grain-producing areas, only the Northeast Plain still has the ability to export grain. The others
The three major plain areas have changed from grain exporting areas to grain importing areas.
A vast land area and abundant fertile cultivated land are necessary conditions for a country to become a big country. The La Plata Plain has a vast cultivated land area, and its precipitation and natural climate are similar to those of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. It is a very suitable place to live. At the same time, even if it is
The Argentinian whites regard the Patagonian wilderness as a desert. The annual precipitation is about 350 millimeters, and it has the natural conditions to turn it into a livestock area.
The Argentinian white people had a treasure trove but didn’t know how to use it. After the southern region was occupied by the Han, millions of Chinese immigrants who had nothing to lose often entered southern Argentina with a hoe and a few axes given by the government and a few days’ worth of dry food.
In the unopened forests, and then adhering to the tradition of the Han ancestors in the loess high slopes, northwest deserts, southeastern mountains and hills and other areas to prevent sand and consolidate land, cut down forests and fill mountains to create farmland, they reclaimed the land that the Argentinian white people were unwilling to open.
A piece of square farmland.
Before 1876, the Han government stipulated that each adult Chinese immigrant could subscribe for thirty acres of land. After May 1876, in view of the surge in the number of immigrants and the large labor demand for domestic industry, Li Mingyuan adjusted the area of land subscribed by Chinese immigrants.
Reduce 30 acres per person to 10 acres per person.
Ten acres of farmland is generally fertile land located in plain areas. For Chinese immigrants who choose to live in mountainous and forested areas, the government has relaxed restrictions on their land ownership and stipulated that each person can own three acres of flat land and thirty acres of mountain farmland.
As long as the area of mountainous, forested and hilly fields reclaimed by the Chinese privately does not exceed 50 acres and the local natural environment is not damaged, the government will tacitly agree that they have the right to use the reclaimed land for ten years.
quantity, and re-confirm the ownership of privately cultivated fields.
With the stimulation and help of low-interest land loan sales and a large number of agricultural equipment provided by the government, groups of organized Chinese immigrants reclaimed the first piece of land of their own with their own hands, and established roots on the land that originally belonged to Argentine whites.
From 1870 to 1878, 3 million of the 5.3 million Chinese people in Han Dynasty lived in the 700,000 square kilometers of land captured in the First Argentine War, forming thousands of settlements of various sizes.
, completely cutting off the possibility of Argentine whites counterattacking to retake the northern territory.
The La Plata Plain was the foundation for the rise of Han Dynasty in South America, and the end of the 19th century was the most suitable time to seize the La Plata Plain. In the 1880s and 1990s, Argentina and Uruguay passed through Han troops without interruption
Due to war, disease deaths and fleeing foreign countries, the population was less than 1.7 million. Compared with ten years ago, the population not only did not increase, but decreased by about 1.7 million.
One hundred thousand people.
Excluding the changes in the strength of Argentina and Paraguay, Brazil has experienced two defeats in the war and will not rashly attack the Han. The United States is still busy at home fighting the Indians in the west and has neither the energy nor the strength to interfere with the Han's actions.
, so Li Mingyuan planned to take advantage of the fact that Han's population and military strength formed an absolute advantage over Argentina to launch an attack and quickly occupy Argentina and Uruguay, laying the foundation for the rise of Han.
The intensive and detailed combat preparation meeting lasted until noon. While Li Mingyuan was carefully arranging various combat preparation tasks, a guard officer walked into the conference room and whispered to Li Mingyuan.
"Let him in."
Li Mingyuan nodded and temporarily suspended the meeting.
"Tap tap tap", Ye Chenglin, who put on a gray and blue uniform of the National Defense Forces, stepped into the conference room, raised his hands and saluted, "Your Majesty, Ye Chenglin is here to return to duty!"
"How was the journey?"
"I encountered an inspection by an Argentine patrol ship, and my subordinates hid in it." Ye Chenglin said as he took out a letter from the pocket of his military uniform, started forward, held it up with both hands and handed it to Li Mingyuan and said, "The Mapuche people invite your highness.
Serve as the king of their tribe, this is the letter written by the thirteen chiefs to His Highness."
"Do the Mapuche people know the news of Antoine's death?" Li Mingyuan looked down at the letter and asked.
"Yes, Your Highness, the Mapuche people believe that after Antoine's death, they need to choose a king who can lead them to resist the oppression of Argentina and Chile."
"Very well, you go back and tell the Mapuche people that the Han people and the Mapuche people are one family, and I will defend them from white aggression just like I do the Han people."
Li Mingyuan said happily after reading the Mapuche chief's letter of allegiance.
"Congratulations to Your Highness for conquering the Mapuche people. With the Mapuche people behind Argentina's back, the operation to occupy the La Plata plain next year will have another chance of success," Liu Pudao said.
The Mapuche are the main Indian tribe in Patagonia. Based on Patagonia's important role in the Han immigration route, Li Mingyuan sent several groups of Chinese teams into the area to trade with the Mapuche on the one hand and on the other hand.
On the other hand, they tried to attract the Mapuche people to join the Han Dynasty. However, due to centuries of influence from white colonists, the Mapuche people were very different from the Chinese in religion and living customs. Various tribes also refused due to their lack of understanding of the Chinese.
Take refuge in the Han Dynasty.
"The Mapuche people are good at nomadic warfare. If they refuse to accept the rule of the Han Kingdom, occupying Patagonia in the future will cause a lot of trouble."
From the letter of allegiance written by the Mapuche chief, Li Mingyuan discovered that their willingness to surrender to the Han was not only due to the help provided by Ye Chenglin and others to the Indian tribes, but more importantly, Chile and Argentina's continued advancement into the Patagonian wilderness.
As a result, the Indian tribes in Patagonia suffered heavy losses. In order to survive as a group, they chose the Han people who looked similar to them to rely on.
Trust between two different ethnic groups cannot be established overnight. Li Mingyuan has no intention of completely gaining the trust of the Mapuche people, because after hundreds of years of fighting with South American whites, the brave Mapuche people have only a few remaining people.
To 30,000, the Indian population of 30,000 is very limited in the face of the more than 5 million Han people. After decades of active or passive integration, the Mapuche people with similar faces are more likely to integrate into the Han people than the white people.
among ethnic groups.
Reaping the allegiance of the Mapuche people in advance, Li Mingyuan felt a little happy. After thinking for a few minutes, Li Mingyuan arranged for Ye Chenglin, "Patagonia is a starting point for the strategy of occupying Argentina. I authorize you to
Patagonia forms a mixed army with a size of less than 6,000 to cooperate with the main force in combat. The weapons and ammunition of the mixed army are supplied domestically, and you need to recruit soldiers from the Indian tribes."
"Your Highness, although the Patagonian Indians fought bravely, they generally have not received formal training. I hope that some officers will be sent from China to enrich the organizational structure of the mixed corps."
"Yes, I will send thirty lieutenant-level officers and four school-level officers to support you."...
